SOLUTION: Mei is carrying six pages of math homework and five pages of English homework. A gust of wind blows the pages out of her hands and she is only able to recover six random pages. Wha
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Question 1192981: Mei is carrying six pages of math homework and five pages of English homework. A gust of wind blows the pages out of her hands and she is only able to recover six random pages. What is the probability that she recovers all of her math homework?
Answer by ikleyn(52877) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is P = = = . ANSWER
Solved.
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This problem is on COMBINATIONS.
On Combinations, see introductory lessons
- Introduction to Combinations
- PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
- Problems on Combinations
in this site.
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- ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
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